Garmin A10 available now through Optus — $0 on $49 cap

It’s available on the $19 ‘yes’ cap plan for $9/mo or $0 upfront on the $49 ‘yes’ cap plan.

The Garmin A10 is a feature packed GPS phone, with a very simplified version of Android. All the software is based on your location, such as maps, whether & schedules. A great phone for the traveller/adventurer!

I have 2 A10’s on $29 caps 1 for me and 1 for my wife, they are the best thing since sliced bread, come with windscreen kit and do voice and visual turn by turn navigation, forget google this thing is as good as my top shelf tom tom. the $29 cap gives me $150 to any network 200mb data unlimited facebook twitter utube etc, was gunna get an Iphone, glad i didn’t now these things are the real deal and by multiplying the last 3 digits in the latitude longitude of GPS ie 31 23.456 153 45.375 by 60… Read more »

Hi Guys ,i have one, Does have wi-fi, use it round the house ,maccas ,no probs, works much the same as I phone,,,and wifes new motorola quench, but with full Sat nav, works great..same as real garmin…..you tube,face book , etc,system is much the same as micro-soft , but cannot download some programs to run?? music is like media player, not many apps for now, but if you wanna play games, buy a nintendo,dah… camera is good ,though not many settings ,as the motorola quench has.(similar as real cam).. can upgrade memory to 16gb, not bad ..i have 4gb in… Read more »

Yes and No ChaosDave, call rate with Virgin is now 99c per min, charged in minute blocks, with a 40c flagfall. This is the most expensive call rate out of the majors. VHA are 90c per min with a 35c flagfall and Optus are around the 80c per min, depending on Cap, with a 35c flagfall.

The $29 Cap is more of a stop gap for Optus. They dont really wanna play in that market, tho it would make more sense to have just 29 Cap and drop the 19. But there is only about 8 handset in total available on the 29 Cap according to Optus’ handset pricing.

There is an XDA version of google navigation that will allow the navigation software to work anywhere in the world. However if you use the google navigation software you will soon find it falls far short of being a full navigation application replacement. I found google navigation great for just checking things out but it won’t replace a dedicated navigation application, especially if you use a provider that doesn’t have great 3G coverage.